How easily we could spell if we could follow,Like thread looped through the eye of a needle,...The grooves of light. It resists. But we stay behind, among them,The injured, the adored.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In this Journal, my pen is a delicate needle point, tracing out a graph of temperament so as to show its daily fluctuations: grave... and gay, up and down, lamentation and revelry, self-love and self-disgust. You get here all my thoughts and opinions, always irresponsible and often contradictory or mutually exclusive, all my moods and vapours, all the varying reactions to environment of this jelly which is I.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The woman who is rearing a family of children; the woman who labors in the schoolroom; the woman who, in her retired chamber, earn...s, with her needle, the mite, which contributes to the intellectual and moral elevation of her Country; even the humble domestic, whose example and influence may be moulding and forming young minds, while her faithful services sustain a prosperous domestic state;Meach and all may be animated by the consciousness, that they are agents in accomplishing the greatest work that ever was committed to human responsibility. It is the building of a glorious temple, whose base shall be coextensive with the bounds of the earth, whose summit shall pierce the skies, whose splendor shall beam on all lands; and those who hew the lowliest stone, as much as those who carve the highest capital, will be equally honored, when its top-stone shall be laid, with new rejoicings of the morning stars, and shoutings of the sons of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I am obnoxious to each carping tongueWho says my hand a needle better fits,...A poet's pen, all scorn, I should thus wrong;For such despite they cast on female wits:If what I do prove well, it won't advance,They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and po...thooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband's dinner.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »